GARDNER v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE

No. 222-76.

380 A.2d 87 (1977)

Margaret GARDNER v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

November 2, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Dooley, III, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Burlington, for plaintiff.

M. Jerome Diamond, Atty. Gen., and David H. Greenberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, for defendant.

Before BARNEY, C. J., and DALEY, LARROW, BILLINGS, and HILL, JJ.


BARNEY, Chief Justice.

The appellant has been denied Medicaid and now appeals that determination. She is an 82-year-old widow presently residing in a nursing home. Two adult sons survive the father.

The essential facts begin in 1975. In June of that year the plaintiff and her husband, Lawrence Gardner, Sr., were living by themselves in an apartment in Burlington. Lawrence, Sr., notified his two sons, Lawrence, Jr., and John, that he was making each of them...

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